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Business Travel Accident Insurance

Protecting your people, and your company, wherever business takes them.

Company paidAn affordable policy for the whole team
Blanket pricingNo individual enrollment
24/7 assistanceOne call starts help worldwide

When an employee gets hurt or sick on a business trip, the questions come fast. Who pays the hospital in Lisbon? How do we get her home? What if it happened on the weekend she added for sightseeing? Most companies assume Workers Compensation and their health plan have it handled. Often, they do not.

Business Travel Accident (BTA) insurance is an affordable, company paid policy that fills those gaps. It protects employees on the road, gives leadership a clear plan when something goes wrong, and shows your team you have their back.

Where Workers Compensation falls short

Workers Compensation is essential, but it was built for the workplace at home, not for an employee in a foreign hospital at 2 a.m. Here is where companies are most often exposed.

The gapHow BTA helps
Illness abroad that is not work relatedWorkers Compensation generally responds only to injury or illness arising out of the job. A case of food poisoning or the flu overseas usually falls outside it. BTA can cover sickness medical expenses while traveling outside the country.
Foreign hospitals that want payment up frontOverseas providers rarely bill a U.S. Workers Compensation carrier. BTA assistance services can arrange payment directly with the facility.
Emergency medical evacuationMoving a patient to a qualified hospital or back home by air ambulance can cost tens of thousands of dollars or more. Workers Compensation and many health plans offer little or no coverage for it.
Personal time on a business tripAn injury on a personal side trip or an extra vacation day may not be considered work related. BTA can extend coverage to personal days added to a covered trip.
People who are not employeesSpouses, dependents, directors, independent contractors, and invited guests are generally not covered by your Workers Compensation policy. BTA can be written to include them.
A benefit for the familyWorkers Compensation death benefits are set by state law and paid over time. BTA pays a lump sum accidental death and dismemberment benefit in addition to any other coverage.

Bleisure travel: business and pleasure, both covered

More employees are turning business trips into a chance to see the world, arriving a few days early or staying through the weekend, and often bringing a spouse or family. BTA plans can extend coverage to personal days taken immediately before and after a covered business trip, so your people are protected from the moment they leave home until they return, not just while they are in meetings. It is a meaningful perk that costs the company very little.

Business travel is broader than you think

Business travel does not require a plane ticket. It is any time an employee steps outside your office on company business, whether that is a client meeting across town, a drive to a job site, or a walk across the street to mail a letter. A better way to think of it: Off Premises Employee Accident Insurance.

Need more? On premises accident coverage is also available, along with high level 24/7/365 coverage for key employees, on or off the job.

Core BTA benefits

Emergency Evacuation

Transport to an adequate medical facility, or home, when local care falls short. Plans typically cover repatriation of remains, and many add security evacuation for unrest or natural disasters.

Out of Country Accident and Sickness Medical

Covers medical bills from an accident or sudden illness while outside the home country, the exposure domestic health plans and Workers Compensation most often leave open.

In Country Accident Medical Expense

Helps pay medical bills from a covered accident on domestic business travel, easing the deductibles and copays other coverage leaves behind.

Accidental Death and Dismemberment

A lump sum benefit paid to the employee or family after a covered accident on company business, on top of Workers Compensation, life insurance, or any other coverage.

Plus: Travel inconvenience coverages, such as lost baggage and baggage delay, are often included as well.
Optional: War risk coverage is available for companies performing sensitive work in high risk countries.

Meeting your duty of care

Employers have a legal and moral responsibility to protect employees who travel for work. Experts on travel risk management agree: have a plan before something happens. BTA puts it in action.

  • Prepare. Everyone knows who to call.
  • Respond. One call starts help worldwide.
  • Protect. Less financial exposure for all.
  • Retain. A benefit that attracts talent.

24/7 travel assistance services

Insurance pays the bills. Assistance gets your employee the right care, fast. Services typically include:

  • 24/7 multilingual assistance hotline
  • Referrals to doctors, hospitals, and dentists abroad
  • Guarantee of payment to medical facilities
  • Medical monitoring and case management
  • Replacement of lost prescriptions and medical devices
  • Help replacing lost passports and travel documents
  • Emergency cash transfers and travel arrangements
  • Legal referrals and interpreter services
  • Travel security alerts and destination intelligence
  • Coordination of evacuation and return home

Common questions

What is business travel accident insurance?

Business Travel Accident (BTA) insurance is an affordable, company paid policy that protects employees while they travel on company business. It fills gaps that Workers Compensation and health plans often leave, including medical care abroad, emergency evacuation, and a lump sum accident benefit.

Does Workers Compensation already cover business trips?

Only in part. Workers Compensation generally responds only to injury or illness arising out of the job. It usually does not cover an illness abroad that is not work related, foreign hospitals that want payment up front, or emergency medical evacuation.

Does it cover personal days added to a business trip?

It can. BTA plans can extend coverage to personal days taken immediately before and after a covered business trip, so employees are protected from the moment they leave home until they return.

Does business travel have to involve a flight?

No. Business travel is any time an employee steps outside your office on company business, whether that is a client meeting across town or a drive to a job site. A better way to think of it is Off Premises Employee Accident Insurance.

Do employees have to enroll individually?

No. Plans use blanket pricing with no individual enrollment, and they are tailored to how and where your people travel.

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Blanket pricing, no individual enrollment, and tailored to how and where your people travel.

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Plans are offered by Landsman Insurance Services, LLC and administered by battleface Insurance Services LLC, 800 N. High Street, Columbus, OH 43215, National Producer Number 18731960 (FL License number L107363, CA License number 0M75381).

This material is a general description of coverage for marketing purposes only and is not a contract of insurance. Coverage, benefits, limits, and premium are illustrative only and subject to underwriting and carrier approval. All coverage is subject to the terms, conditions, limitations, and exclusions of the policy actually issued. Benefits and availability may vary by state, and not all benefits are available on every plan. Travel assistance services are not insurance and are provided by a third party assistance provider.